Ep. 57- Magnus Hirschfeld, the trans community, and the Nazis with Brandy Schillace
Send us Fan Mail When the Nazis carried out their infanous and well-documented book burning on the Opernplatz in May 1933, the literal fuel for that fire came from Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute fo...
23 Jun 20251h 20min
Ep. 56- The Holocaust in Bulgaria with Nadége Ragaru
Send us Fan Mail The story of Bulgaria and the Holocaust is often a narrative about how Bulgaria protected its Jews from the Nazis. But is this really case? Certainly not in the case of Thrace and Ma...
9 Jun 20251h 9min
Ep. 55- Holocaust Photographs with Hilary Earl and Valerie Hébert
Send us Fan Mail In December 1941, an SS man took a series of 12 photographs of an Einsatzgruppen killing in Latvia. The negatives were stolen by a survivor who had copies made and retrieved them af...
19 Mai 20251h 20min
Ep. 54- Early Violence against Jews in 1933 with Hermann Beck
Send us Fan Mail When did the Holocaust start? How soon after Hitler took power did anti-Jewish violence begin? These are some of the important questions we explore in this episode as I talk with He...
12 Mai 20251h 13min
Ep. 53- Hitler’s Mein Kampf and the Holocaust with Michael S. Bryand and John J. Michalczyk
Send us Fan Mail Among the books that many people talk about but few have read, certainly Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf is one. But it IS a difficult read. How do we interpret this book? How significan...
21 Apr 20251h 19min
Ep. 52- Mengele in South America with Betina Anton
Send us Fan Mail Many Nazis including Josef Mengele, Adolf Eichmann, Franz Stangl, and Klaus Barbie escaped Europe and fled to South America in an attempt to evade prosecution for their crimes. We kn...
14 Apr 20251h 18min
Ep. 51- Klaus Barbie and his Trial with Richard J. Golsan
Send us Fan Mail Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, led a terrible and fascinating life, from Nazi torturer to advisor to brutal South American dictatorships. However, unlike many, he was eventually ...
7 Apr 20251h 13min
Ep. 50- Digital Humanities and the Holocaust with Todd Presner
Send us Fan Mail How can the digital humanities address and explore the Holocaust? In these days of Chat GPT, we may be rightly wary about the use of computers to analyze the past. However, today’s e...
31 Mar 20251h 19min
